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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why I'm Mary Kissel ... for to Governor Rick Scott became the latest in a parade ... of GOP governors ... who have been graced ... parts of Obamacare enabling Medicaid expansion ... so have the sky seems some kind of virtue when this legislation that the majority of Americans don't ... Wall Street Journal Editorial board member Joe rego joins me now ... I can show for that was when the leaders of the lawsuit against Obamacare why the sudden about face is specifically calling this the expansion unconstitutional ... and and ... so I mean Rick Scott is flipped Ohio's John Casey ... Sheehan brewer in areas and we've got a chart actually of all the GOP governors Ritz Brothers bloom is so real stalwarts and there are starting to roll in and basically there are succumbing to to to force is the first is ... the federal government is offering to pay for a hundred percent because ... of of all the new in Raleigh so so free money from Uncle sugar ... and then the other reason is is an ... aggressive lobbying by the state hospitals who were who were looking for more government in the winter when the hospital's get this revenue anyway if the state's governor to fill the Standard estates had the option ... not to do this solution they could opt in or opt out as a result of the Supreme Court law suits that Florida wanted ... to for a ... UN Rick Scott has terrible approval ratings with it that that plan for ... who you call me cynical but who knows you can go to the problem with this decision is that I'm that this is basically the gift of a baby elephant that the federal government is saying what by all the hay for the first few years so what are they can do over the long term and will either ... that the states have been complaining for years that Medicaid spending is crowding out ... everything else the government is suppose to do like build roads and to keep the children ... on it so we know can be here they are ... and that you know that they think it is derived and they say oh well free money ... with the really doing is taking a long-term liabilities that they can afford now Rick Scott Ross Ohio's ... governor case it ... said will will do this for a little while and I feel like it will stop is that possible ... problem with that that's what they claim this is really sort of political I wash political cover ... um that the problem is that the federal government can impose something called maintenance of effort will which requires you ... want to expand Medicaid which you do something and Medicaid are not allowed to rescind it later becomes too expensive ... these rules are in place right now ... if you can it didn't believe it ... maintenance of effort even prevents the state from taking some money off the Medicaid rolls if it turns out they move to another state where they lived in another state to begin with ... so in these ... states and are still opting out of Medicaid ... is political pressure building on them to cool in Republican states to follow Florida the fall of places like Ohio and do this right I mean I think over time we we we will see um maybe some other states fall on a on it especially if it ... on the Affordable Care Act becomes ... a permanent part of the ... American and two if warranted to pray for this and and and what kind of charismatic and can provide all of these people ... pray will Medicaid doesn't appear again on health outcomes the US that that that the problem is we Telefónica ... which it ... did these programs are too costly as it is ... on expanding them is the last thing we should do before instead of performing them so they work better ... you can machinery for men so they work better ... he did a pretty common sense solution to me that's how we